DAINI ROBERTA
- U06, Floor: 3, Room: 3026B
The office hour is held on Tuesdays at 2:30-3:30 pm.
For urgent matters, write to the professor.
The office hour, by appointment, can also be held remotely, connecting to:
https://meet.google.com/dov-cngo-ogi
Tuesday, the 7th January 2025, the office hour will be remotely only.
Research
Actual lines of research:
- Aging: effects of healthy aging on cognitive functioning (perception, attention, reading and eye movements) and cognitive training for cognitive enhancement.
- Face recognition: congenital prosopagnosia, processing of non-emotional facial expressions in neurologically healthy individuals and clinical populations.
- Clinical neuropsychology: mechanisms and efficacy of rehabilitation techniques in unilateral spatial neglect, acquired reading deficits in right brain-damaged patients, development of neuropsychological assessment tools.
- Experimental psychology: perception, attention, spatial cognition and consciousness.
Publications
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Gobbo, S., Lega, C., De Sandi, A., Daini, R. (2024). The role of preSMA and STS in face recognition: A transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study. NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA, 198(6 June 2024) [10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108877]. Detail
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Daini, R., Primativo, S., Albonico, A., Veronelli, L., Malaspina, M., Corbo, M., et al. (2021). The Focal Attention Window Size Explains Letter Substitution Errors in Reading. BRAIN SCIENCES, 11(2 (February 2021)), 1-18 [10.3390/brainsci11020247]. Detail
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Petilli, M., Marini, F., Daini, R. (2020). Distractor context manipulation in visual search: How expectations modulate proactive control. COGNITION, 196 [10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104129]. Detail
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Daini, R. (2019). The Lack of Self-Consciousness in Right Brain-Damaged Patients Can Be due to a Disconnection From the Left Interpreter: The DiLeI Theory. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 10 [10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00349]. Detail
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Daini, R., Vallar, G., Arduino, L. (2018). Why we move to the right? The dominant hand motor-spatial bias. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. GENERAL, 147(10), 1488-1502 [10.1037/xge0000476]. Detail